Matt WiaterChip Conlon (who now brews at Burnside) brewing at Roots back in the day...

Burnside Brewing is displaying the photography of Portland beer blogger Matt Wiater. “The Art of Beer” is a month-long show of Wiater’s excellent photos of brewers, breweries, pubs and the beer scene of Portland, which he’s been documenting for the past five years. Fifteen pieces will be on display and for sale and Wiater will be at the opening to talk beer and photography.

Greg Koch, the man behind such Stone Brewing beers as Arrogant Bastard, will be in town Saturday afternoon, and Belmont Station will be featuring several special Stone beers. Koch is in Oregon to mark the release a collaboration beer called the Alchemist Ninkasi/Stone More Brown than Black IPA. He’ll appear with Ninkasi front man Jamie Floyd 7-9 p.m. tonight at the Beer Stein in Eugene. In other Belmont Station events, they’ll have a tasting 6-8 p.m. Tuesday of the Belgian beers imported by Vanberg and DeWulf and a chance to meet the folks who started the company 30 years ago. .

They brewed a special beer to help celebrate the first decade of the Multnomah Village Lucky Lab: Winter Wonderdog is a new winter brew described as brick red, smooth, and malty — a winter beer with a sweet and nutty profile.

RIVER CITY MUSIC FESTIVAL Friday-Sunday, the Red Lion at Jantzen Beach;

Fans of great music and great beer will want to get to the River City Music Festival this weekend, which includes such fine musicians as Rodney Crowell, Tommy Emmanuel, Geoff Muldaur & the Texas Sheiks, David Lindley, Jesse Winchester, Dale Watson, the Peter Rowan Band and Jim Lauderdale. There are two big stages and the beer sponsor is Lagunitas, that California brewery whom we would so happily adopt as one of our own in beer and spirit. It should be a fine weekend...

FoystonfotoJosh Grgas and owner/brewer Mike Wright in the tasting room at The Commons brewery.

This weekend at the tasting room they're unveiling the first batch of
the Commons Yeast Series. They've taken a portion of Urban Farmhouse Ale wort and
fermented it with two different yeast strains: German Farmhouse Ale (Wyeast
1007 German Ale) and Bolleke Farmhouse Ale (Wyeast 3655 Belgian
Schlede) to show the impact
various yeast strains have on beer. They'll be offering a flight of the two variants, plus Urban Farmhouse Ale for $5.